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Paris
(Nov 2025)

  • Good morning from the Louvre
  • Setting Sun over the Louvre 
  • Doing a Frans Hals (at the Louvre) 
  • The Pont D’Arcole de Paris
  • The Canopy of Paris Westfield
  • The Fontaine des Innocents of Paris
  • Marx Dormoy station of the Paris Métro
  • The Notre-Dame de Paris
  • Paris from the Sacre Coeur at Montmartre
  • The Church of Saint-Eustache in Paris
  • The Rue Foyatier of Montmartre in Paris 
  • The Basilica of Sacre Coeur de Montmartre 
  • Love locks on the Hill of Montmartre 
  • The Eiffel Tower
  • The Pont des Arts
  • The doors of Paris
  • Architecture of Charles de Gaulle Airport 
  • Views of France from my plane’s window


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Rome
(Jun-Jul 2025)

  • Rome’s Colosseum (incl. Arched View)
  • The Roman Forum and Palatine Hill
  • The Vatican Museum, the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel
  • St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City (& followed by a miracle)
    • The Braccio Nuovo (new wing) of the old Emperors
  • The Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain and Pantheon
  • The Porta San Paolo
  • The Castel Sant’Angelo
  • Caravaggio at the Church of Saint Louis of the French
  • Beautiful sky in Rome
  • Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo
  • The dome of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
  • The Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major
  • The Arch of Constantine
  • The Barberini Palace
    • Highlights of the art collection
    • The Triumph of Divine Providence ceiling fresco
    • Square Staircase by Bernini
  • The National Gallery of Modern Art
  • The Galleria Doria Pamphilj - highlights of the art collection


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Vienna
(Feb 2025)

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  • ▼  2025 (203)
    • ▼  November (18)
      • Blogging break
      • David Jagger - Jewish Refugee, Vienna (1938) - poi...
      • Remembering Manfred Goldberg (1930-2025)
      • “BBC ‘ignored’ pro-trans bias in sports stories”
      • VPN monitoring - gradual erosion of UK civil liber...
      • Is the BBC Immune to Criticism
      • William Hogarth, The Graham Children (1742)
      • The Poppy Field by Claude Monet (1873)
      • Self-Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (1759)
      • Why the Supreme Court should strike down Trump’s t...
      • Whalers by J.M.W. Turner (1845)
      • Boy Bringing Bread by Pieter de Hooch (1663)
      • The BBC Bias Dossier - It Can No Longer Be Trusted
      • The Balfour Declaration is a Milestone of Moral Cl...
      • The Haredi community and Israel’s defence
      • “Colour and Illusion”: The Rembrandt-Hoogstraten E...
      • Jew-haters and the Conservative Movement
      • The Wheelbarrow, Orchard by Camille Pissarro (1881)
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